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Extremely hot days in summer are becoming more normal across the globe, but in the UK and other typically mild countries, our homes are not prepared.…

The novelist Muriel Spark died almost 20 years ago, but she still regularly appears on lists of top comic novelists to read on this subject or…

Lower-income householders, minority ethnic people and those with young children are more likely to live in homes at risk from dangerous overheating, research has found.The UK…

For the man getting home late to the line. He calls calling with a miniaturist’s awareness (cold to touch), though somewhere still on fire. He couldn’t…

People aged over 75 are being excluded from health research due to arbitrary age cut-offs, potentially stalling the development of life-saving treatments, leading charities and research…

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People seeking cheap Botox-like injections have been warned by experts against doing it themselves due to the risk of “eyelid droops”, infection and even botulism.There are…

Last month, a small company in San Francisco announced that it had a plan to manufacture gold—not merely a flake or a nugget, but tons of…

My former husband David Brooks, who has died aged 86, was a GP in Manchester across four decades, and a trainer of GPs in the city…

When gunfire pelted the Atlanta-based headquarters of the CDC yesterday, hundreds of employees were inside the campus’s buildings. The experience was terrifying. But some of the…